Originally Posted by
5.7ute
There was a thread on the "other" site, where a simulator was hooked up & the reference point was found to be the end of injection, which in a way makes some sort of sense. This would have the fuel charge always firing onto a closed hot inlet valve, giving time to fully vaporise the fuel charge before the intake valve opened. A large duration cam would have the fuel firing into an open intake valve, causing cylinder wall wash, as well as unvaporised fuel entering the combustion chamber.